I will carry you

from We do not speak - EP by VanWyck

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- The dark side of lullabies -
As a child I was always a bit frightened of the song Rockabye Baby. I remember wondering how hard the wind would have to blow before the cradle would fall, and can still recall the mental picture I made of the specific tree where this would happen. Growing up I learned that most lullabies have a dark side - it’s part of what they’re for. In the oldest one written down on a clay tablet in Iraq 2000 BC the mother sings of night time demons that will come to spank you. A famous Gallic one written during the potato famines warns the child that the mother’s milk will soon dry up and everyone will starve. The Spanish poet Lorca studied them extensively and commented on their “depth of sadness” It’s like they serve a double purpose: to sooth and to warn, for us nowadays this may sound contradictory, but maybe a warned babe does sleep better - or maybe a mother who has voiced her concerns is better able to overcome them. We often think the best way to sooth children is to keep them from all things bad and make them believe the world is a happy, shiny place. And maybe some of us are fortunate enough to uphold that fiction for our children. But millions of mother’s can’t. I wonder what they sing for their children.

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I will carry you

Don’t wake up, keep sleeping
Dreams are so much better than today
They’re coming closer any day now
we’ll pack it up and make our way

Oh baby I will carry you to the end of the world
Across the iron borders and the foreign soil
And if they try to stop me, I will just carry on
I will carry on, till I find you a home

Don’t wake up, keep sleeping,
Dreams are so much better than today
I can hear them, in the distance
getting nearer almost every day

Oh baby I will carry you to the end of the world
Across the iron borders and the foreign soil
And if they try to stop me, I will just carry on
I will carry on, till I find you a home

Don’t wake up, keep sleeping,
dreams are so much better than today
the city’s burning, the nights on fire
we don’t look back, we move ahead

Oh baby I will carry you to the end of the world
Across the iron borders and the foreign soil
And if they try to stop me, I will just carry on
I will carry on, till I find you a home

somewhere to rest your head
and to place your bed
safe and sound
under a silent sky
upon steady ground

Don’t wake up, keep sleeping,
Dreams are better than today

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from We do not speak - EP, released December 17, 2016
recorded at home

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VanWyck Amsterdam, The Netherlands

With her rich lyrics and sober alt folk craft Amsterdam singer-songwriter VanWyck has released 4 albums: 'An Average Woman' in 2018, 'Molten Rock' in 2019, 'God is in the Detour' in 2020 and 'The Epic Tale of the Stranded Man' in 2022.

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